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Re: Interesting vowel harmony system from Australia

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Thursday, July 15, 2004, 21:17
Paul Bennett wrote:
> I think it could be very easy for the native intuition to be that names > mentioned in this way aren't actually part of the sentence that follows > them. It could be equally easy for a suitably culturally-sensitive > linguist to accept this without a fight, and report it as fact.
Perhaps, but Doug mentioned that the author avoided giving personal names even in citation form.